guest john kiriakou was invited to speak at the e.u. parliament about whistleblowing in relation to national security but he was removed from the panel of the last moment for co-hosting a radio program on the russian media outlet sputnik a carrier he worked for the cia for fourteen years in two thousand and seven in a televised interview kiriakou revealed that the agency was waterboarding al qaeda suspects then spent two years behind bars for whistleblowers and we spoke to kiriakou who told us how he was removed from the e.u. parliamentary panel. i was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bernie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media i laughed when she first said it because it was so ridiculous that i thought she was jokin

cia whistle blower john kiriakou was removed from an e.q. parliament in the last minute simply for co-hosting the radio show on russian media outlets but. they feel like they can't even risk even tangentially association with the russians or with anything russian. the u.s. military steps up its efforts to militarize space splashing the cash on new warfare capabilities. very warm welcome you are watching aussie international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital. the top story this hour attacks on r.t. in the u.s. are equal to attacks on free speech that's according to the president of law to me appear to he was also a reporter's questions on the final day of the apec summit in vietnam. and. those who are doing this in the u.s. so. always been proud of being the world's number one democrats and freedom of speech has always been the main value it here to buy them there's no democracy without freedom of speech and it's not going our media in the us is making a mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself mr putin also promised that

cia whistleblower john kiriakou was removed from an e.u. parliament pile of them last minute simply for co-hosting a radio show on russian media outlets but. they feel like they can't even risk even tangentially association with the russians or with anything russian and the u.s. military steps up its efforts to militarize space splashing the cash a new orbital warfare capabilities. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and the karen the top story this hour attacks on r.t. in the u.s. are equal to attacks on free speech as according to president vladimir putin he was on soaring reporters' questions on the last day of the apec summit in vietnam our correspondent the trunk is there for is let's close like him now and find out more bring this up to speed on the latest would you please. nagy hello again well when president vladimir putin was replying to our correspondents question about what really turned into a crackdown against r t in the u.s. he pointed at freedom of speech wh

guest john kiriakou was invited to speak at the e.u. parliament on national security whistleblowing but he was removed from the panel at the very last moment and pleased to say that i can speak now to john kiriakou himself to shed some light on the story. john just take us through them what happened there and while your appearance as i understand the new panel didn't go through. right i was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bernie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media and so i was removed from the panel no one ever asked my opinion or anything they just removed me from the panel and then one of the greek members of the european parliament instead did a one on one interview with me for greek national television i did ap

cia whistleblower john kiriakou was removed from an e.u. parliament panel at the very last moment simply for co-hosting a radio show on russian media outlets but. they feel like they can't even risk even. with the russians or with anything russian. getting this is our international. attacks on r.t. in the u.s. equal to attacks on free speech that's according to president vladimir putin he was answering reporters' questions on the final day of the apec summit in vietnam. decrypted you lose. those who are doing this in the us have always been proud of being the world's number one democrats and freedom of speech has always been the main value it hits who buy them there's no democracy without freedom of speech and it's not going our media in the us is making a mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself mr putin also promised that the russian government will come up with appropriate retaliation such retaliation may affect american or american funded media that are operating in russia this is a reaction to a very recent decision by the us depa

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growing stronger and more powerful in the region every single day so there's an awful lot at stake kiriakou work for the cia for fourteen years in two thousand and seven in a televised interview he revealed the agency was using torture methods against al qaeda prisoners those methods included waterboarding earlier he told me how he was removed from the e.u. panel which was about to discuss whistle blowing the very thing he spent almost two years behind bars for. was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bertie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media i did appear at a panel later in the afternoon with the cuban ambassador to the european union and several other me peace but that first paid in so as a understand it was. warm he said she wasn't allowed to be on the same panel with

cia whistle blower john kiriakou was removed from an e.u.arliament panel at the very last moment simply for co-hosting a radio.

we saw john kiriakou of the cia whistleblower was kicked off a panel in europe a couple of days ago because someone of bernie sanders supporter claimed that he had to go he has a show a radio show a co-host on sputnik radio so he was not allowed to speak this thing is growing and it's frightening and i don't see where it's going to end in a child why do you think it is like it's going to be very good wherever it does yet why do you think it is growing so fast why are we at this level of hysteria do you think what will mean. what's the main issue here boy people i believe that the. i believe it's been a geo strategic interest of the united states since. president putin came to power and put an end to the u.s. dominance of russia under yeltsin and there's been an effort in an interest to get back to that kind of to have someone friendly again and powers they could have these alliances with all the guards of wall street to clean up as they actually stripped russia during the one nine hundred ninety s. so this russia gate story for example fits right into that and they want to stop russia from

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